§ The result
Canditech leads Zappyhire by 5 points.
Canditech scores 39 and Zappyhire 34 under rubric v1.0, a 5-point gap across the Assessment and Screening cohorts. Canditech leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Data Governance Disclosure, while Zappyhire leads 1, including Bias Audit Transparency. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Customer Documentation (Canditech 58, Zappyhire 45) and Data Governance Disclosure at 15% (Canditech 52, Zappyhire 42), the second being 27% of the weighted advantage Canditech holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
Vendor profile
Zappyhire
Zappyhire is an AI-powered recruitment automation platform that screens and ranks candidates through resume parsing, a recruiting chatbot, AI assessments, and robotic video interviews, layered on an applicant tracking system.
§ The record
Canditech is filed under Assessment AI, Zappyhire under Screening AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Video interview.
Both are in scope of NYC LL 144, Illinois HB 3773, EU AI Act, Colorado AI Act and Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Canditech | Zappyhire |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | IL | IN |
| Founded | 2019 | 2018 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 25% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Canditech 52 · Zappyhire 42
1.5 weighted points to Canditech
20% weight · 48% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Canditech 37 · Zappyhire 30
1.4 weighted points to Canditech
8% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Customer Documentation
Canditech 58 · Zappyhire 45
1.0 weighted points to Canditech
15% weight · 77% of the movement so far
FRIA Support
Canditech 30 · Zappyhire 25
0.8 weighted points to Canditech
18% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Canditech 25 · Zappyhire 28
0.5 weighted points to Zappyhire
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Canditech 32 · Zappyhire 28
0.5 weighted points to Canditech
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Canditech 53 · Zappyhire 50
0.4 weighted points to Canditech
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +5.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 6.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +5 beside that +5.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Canditech minus Zappyhire.
| Category | Weight | Canditech | Zappyhire | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 37 | 30 | +7 | +1.4 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 25 | 28 | -3 | -0.5 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 25 | +5 | +0.8 |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 52 | 42 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 53 | 50 | +3 | +0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 32 | 28 | +4 | +0.5 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 45 | +13 | +1.0 |
| Total | 100% | 39 (F) | 34 (F) | +5 | +5.0 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Canditech | Zappyhire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | Audit reportSources on a separate domain |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 6 | Audit reportSources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; Zappyhire has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Zappyhire sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 36 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain, and 18 for Zappyhire, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Zappyhire last reviewed
- June 7, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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